Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Kadri Hamzat, has restated the present administration’s commitment to making Lagos a Smart City. The deputy governor said this at the 2019 Nigeria Computer Society (NSC) Lagos Information Technology Conference and Annual General Meeting with the theme:’Information Technology: The enabler for a Sustainable Lagos Economy”. Represented by the state Commissioner […]

The end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, Whatsapp has filed a lawsuit against an Israeli technology firm, NSO Group with claims it sent malicious software to its users. The affected users were estimated to be around 1,400. WhatsApp. It alleged the firm did it for the purposes of surveillance. Among the affected users are journalists, human rights […]

The microblogging and social networking service, Twitter which popularised the word “tweet” has announced it will ban political adverts on its platform worldwide. This is coming after its main social media rival, Facebook ruled out any move to ban political ads, Speaking on why it concluded on such decision, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey tweeted: “While […]

The National Communications Commission (NCC) says it targets 100 million  Nigerians for rapid Digital Local Entrepreneurs Development. Mr Ephraim Nwokonneya,  Director, Research and Development of the commission, disclosed this during a two-day forum organised by the commission for the  North-East region which kicked off on Wednesday in Yola. Nwokonneya said that the forum was designed to […]

A report launched at the annual meetings of the World Bank Group recently, revealed that Africa requires an investment of $100 billion to be able to achieve universal, affordable, and quality internet access by 2030.

A non-governmental organisation, Business Renaissance Group, BRG has urged multinational corporations to emulate telecom firm MTN Nigeria by ensuring good representation of Nigerians on their Board of Directors.

Computer maker, Hewlett Packard,  has released latest and innovative laptop product, HP Envy  in the Nigerian market.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has revealed that as at August this year, only about 67 out of the over 174 million active subscribers in Nigeria have subscribed to the 3G and 4G network platforms so far.

Chairman, Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh has charged budding entrepreneurs and business owners to be highly patriotic and retain a level of belief in Nigeria, if they want  to scale their businesses.

A Technology Company, Softcom, has unveiled a mobile banking company called Eyowo.

The Post Master General of the Federation, Barr. Bisi Adegbuyi has explained that some of the game changing reforms ongoing in the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST  are still unknown because they are new and are not what people can see anywhere.

Global technology leader Xiaomi today announced Redmi Note 8 Pro, Redmi Note 8, Redmi 8 and Redmi 8A in Nigeria, following these devices’ debut in China.

The United States Department of Defense has awarded a cloud-computing deal to Microsoft after a stiff competition for the deal by Microsoft and Amazon. The deal reported to be worth $10 billion (N3.6 trillion) is tagged Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (Jedi). It is a project by the US Defence to improve its technology prowess. ALSO […]

By Prince Osuagwu – Hi-Tech Editor President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, renamed the Communications Technology Ministry to Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. The development, Vanguard gathered, was in answer to the prayers of the current Minister of Communications, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, who wishes that it be so, to properly position and […]

Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) posted worse-than-expected third-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, which the company attributed to advertising problems including product bugs and unusually low demand over the summer, sending its shares down about 15%. Shares of the micro-blogging platform dropped to $33 in trading before the bell. Twitter’s revenue rose 9% from a year earlier […]